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“Nothing is immune to change, Anna. Not the mountains or the oceans. There is nothing more inevitable; nothing else that unites us so indiscriminately.”

“Nightmares aren’t without end. At some point, you wake up.”

“I’d like to wake up now.”

“Anna wonders if that’s what Time does — wears the humanity out of you until the promise of death pulls no more emotion than the promise of rain.”

Chapter 4 Opening Poem:

She’s still a sparrow of a woman. Hollow-boned and fragile. Easily broken. He wonders how long it will take her to realize that the thing that makes her weak is the same thing that will allow her to fly.

“I have taken more than I’ve given.”

“You cannot take what has already been offered. You receive, your worth is not something to be weighed and measured. There is no divine scale comparing the weight of the help you give against the help you accept.”

“You’ve never asked. Words we hold on to only grow harder to uproot. Ask now before things get too tangled to let go.”

“If you don’t know how to live, his gift will become a curse.”

“I’ve lived on my own for years.”

“No, child. You survived. I will make sure you learn the difference.”